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Tempest, The. Tragicomedy written in 1611 by noted Earth was accidentally sent to Earth's 20th century, where an individual dramatist William Shakespeare. Enterprise-D officer Data creat- named Henry Starling discovered Braxton's ship and was in fact ed a holodeck program to stage Act V, Scene | of The Tempest in responsible for triggering the 29th-century temporal explosion. 2370 so that he could play the role of Prospero. (“Emergence” The disaster was averted when the Voyager crew destroyed the [TNG]). The Miranda-class starship designation was named for timeship in 1996. (“Future's End, Parts | and II" [VGRY) Miranda, daughter of Prospero in this play. temporal flux. Phenomenon in which matter passes from one Temple of Akadar. SEE: Akadar, Temple of. space-time continuum to another. Temporal flux can interfere with the operation of transporters if the object or person to be Temple of Commerce. SEE: Tower of Commerce. Tanmcied is in a state of temporal flux. (Star Trek Generations). EE: nexus. Templeton, Mrs. (Carolyn Seymour). Holonovel character. Mrs. Templeton was the = temporal narcosis. Delirium produced by exposure to a tempostern housekeeper for Lord Burleigh in \ ral distortion phenomenon. (“Timescape” [TNG)). Janeway's gothic romance story. (“Cath- = \ exis” [VGR]). When a Bothan invaded ’ - temporal reversion. Phenomenon that can occurred in proximithe Voyager in 2372, Janeway had a hallu- | ~ ty to an anti-time anomaly. Exposure could cause living cell cination that Mrs. Templeton attacked structures to revert to earlier forms. In some cases this had the her with a knife. (“Persistence of Vision” effect of causing old injuries to heal. This benefit was temporary, [VGR|). SEE: Janeway Lambda-1, Carolyn as prolonged exposure caused cells to coalesce and cease to Seymour also played Subcommander function. (“All Good Things..." [TNG]). Taris in “Contagion” (TNG) and Commander Toreth in “Face of the Enemy” (TNG). temporal rift. Also known as a time displacement or a temporal distortion, a "hole in time.” A temporal rift was created by a phoTemporal Integrity Commission. Government agency of the ton torpedo explosion in 2344, accidentally sending the Starship United Federation of Planets in the 29th century. The commission ~~ Enterprise-C some 22 years into the future. When that ship was established to monitor the timestream and to dispatch time- emerged in 2366, Commander Data noted the rift appeared to ships to investigate deviations from the normal flow of history. resemble a Kerr loop of superstring material. He noted that the rift (“Future's End, Part II" [VGR]). Presumably an outgrowth of was not stable and had no discernible event horizon. The rift Temporal Investigations. remained stable long enough for the Enterprise-C to return to its proper place in history. (“Yesterday's Enterprise” [TNG]). SEE: Temporal Investigations. SEE: Federation Department of gravimetric fluctuations. Federation timeships of the 29th cenTemporal Investigations. tury created artificial temporal rifts, using a graviton matrix, when they navigated through time. (“Future's End, Part I" [VGR]). Temporal Prime Directive. General order employed in the Federation of the 29th century that prohibited interference with temporal signature. Property of matter that uniquely identifies the normal development of history. This included giving aid or the time period in which that matter belongs. (“The Visitor” [DS9]). information to inhabitants of previous eras, because such actions might influence future eras. (“Future's End, Part II" [VGR]). temporal vortex. Time-spanning conduit created by the controlled temporal anomaly. Rift or hole in the space-time continuum, emission of chronometric particles which allows for passage from one time period to another, or from In 2373, a Borg sphere created a | one parallel reality to another. (*Parallels” [TNG]). SEE: quantum temporal vortex and used it to travel fissure. Temporal anomalies have been the basis for many trou- into Earth's past to the year 2063, bling situations in episodes such as “Time Squared” (TNG), along with the Starship Enterprise-E. (Star Trek: First Contact). “Yesterday's Enterprise” (TNG), "Cause and Effect” (TNG), “All Good Things..." (TNG), and “Past Tense" (DS9). While they make Temtibi Lagoon. Body of water on the pleasure planet Risa. In for interesting story situations, the technical details are often 2373, Arandis was the chief facilitator for the entire Temtibi rather obscure. Lagoon. (“Let He Who Is Without Sin..." [DS]).

temporal causality loop. A disruption in the space-time continu- Ten Tribes, Nation-state on planet Capella IV. The Ten Tribes um in which a localized fragment of time is repeated over and were governed by a leader known as a high teer. The title was over again, ad infinitum. Minor variations are possible in succes- passed from father to son, except in cases of coup d'état. sive iterations of a loop. The U.S.S. Bozeman was trapped in a (“Friday's Child” [TOS]). temporal causality loop in 2278, emerging 90 years later in 2368. Just prior to the return of the Bozeman, the Enterprise-D was fi Ten-Forward Lounge. A large recreation caught in the same causality loop, where it spent some 17.4 days. A [9 1 room located on Deck 10 of the Starship (“Cause and Effect” [TNG]). Rr { . Enterprise-D, on the front rim of the — <<. Saucer Module. Ten-Forward was temporal distortion. A disruption in the space-time continuum. — enjoyed by most off-duty personnel, and The Enterprise-D's sensors detected a temporal distortion with g served as the social center of the ship. the appearance of Professor Berlinghoff Rasmussen's time- Ten-Forward featured a bar, tended by travel pod in 2368. (“A Matter of Time" [TNG]). A temporal distur- Guinan, and numerous tables from which one could enjoy the bance in the space-time continuum can cause time within tem- spectacular vista offered by the windows looking out into space. poral fragments to pass at different rates than that of surrounding (“The Child” [TNG]). Although a wide variety of exotic beverages space. (“Timescape” [TNG]). SEE: temporal rift. were served in Ter-Forward, most of them used an ingredient called synthehol, an alcohol substitute that avoided some of the temporal explosion. Energetic disturbance in the space-time unpleasant side effects of alcoholic beverages. (“Relics [TNG]) continuum. In one possible future, a massive temporal explosion ~~ Ten-Forward was built after the first season of Star Trek: The Next occurred in the 29th century, destroying all of Earth's solar system. ~~ Generation. It was first seen in “The Child" (TNG), the first episode When evidence was discovered that the 24th-century starship of the second season. The set has been re-dressed to serve as a Voyager was somehow responsible for this cataclysm, Captain theatre and a concert hall. In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Braxton, commanding the Federation timeship Aeon, was dis- Country, it even served as the office of the Federation Council prespatched to prevent the explosion. During the mission, the Aeon ident complete with a view of Paris out the windows. It was later